Israel Updates October 16 Isru chag Sukkos

Israel updates day 741

 - Trump: “If Hamas continues to kill people in Gaza, which was not the Deal, we will have no choice but to go in and kill them. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”

- Israel marks today two years since the massacre on Simchas Torah. The President and the Prime Minister will participate in two ceremonies on Mount Herzl, in memory of IDF fallen soldiers and massacre victims. The national flag is lowered to half mast

- Prime Minister Netanyahu will convene the security leadership today to examine the continuation of the conduct in Gaza and the identification and release of additional hostages’ bodies.

- The Israeli government has decided not to open the Rafah crossing until Hams increases the rate of returning the bodies of the hostages it holds

- Shas party leader Arye Deri demanded that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu immediately halt all parts of the agreement with Hamas, including opening the Rafah border crossing and allowing aid to enter the Gaza Strip until Hamas "cooperates fully and seriously" in returning the remains of all murdered hostages.

- Over the past 48 hours, Hamas has returned 10 bodies to Israel. 7 of them were positively identified as hostages, 2 are currently ongoing identification, and 1 was the body of a Gazan. 

Hamas claims that they have handed over all hostages who were in their possession, and that the remaining bodies require "significant efforts and special equipment" for search and rescue.

- President Trump: "If Hamas does not disarm - we will disarm them. They know I don't play games. Hamas told me through my people at the highest levels that they will disarm - if not, we will disarm them, and this could be done with speed and violence."

- Israeli officials are increasingly putting out statements that indicate Israel could return to fighting if Hamas does not disarm and abide by the deal that was agreed to in Sharm el-Sheikh.

Hamas is supposed to hand over all the bodies of hostages. It is also supposed to disarm and cede governance. These are just some of the 20-point deal that has multiple phases.

- Hamas transferred two caskets containing the remains of two slain Israeli hostages, Inbar Haiman and Muhammad el-Atrash, on Wednesday night, as it claimed to have recovered the bodies of all the deceased captives “that it was able to reach.”

The caskets were collected by the Red 

- Monday night, deceased hostages Guy Iluz Daniel Peretz , Yossi Sharabi, and Bipin were returned and identified. 

-US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee posts: "Hams still holds hostages who are deceased, whom it murdered – including the Americans Itay Chen and Omer Nauta"

- Released hostage Eitan Mor tells Prime Minister Netanyahu: "I had conversations with Izz al-Din al-Haddad, the military leader of Hamas, and he told me that if anyone gets released first - it will be me. He said, "Anyways, your father does not go out to protests - so we will send you back first."

-Senior American official said in a briefing to reporters that the US conveyed a message to Hamas through intermediaries that it must stop executions and reprisal actions against Palestinian Authorities 

We were in contact today with many of the families of the dead hostages, and we made it clear to them that we do not leave anyone behind – we have a plan on how to do this and we will succeed in doing

- According to information received by the IDF, hostage Guy Iluz Z"L, who was injured and kidnapped alive from the Nova Festival Massacre, died of his wounds after not receiving proper medical treatment in captivity. 

- Hostage Vipin Joshi, who was kidnapped from Kibbutz Alumim, was murdered in captivity in the early months of the war. 

- Yaron Or, the father of released hostage Avinatan, told Kan Bet that his son attempted to escape the tunnel he was being held in following a bombing over a year ago. His captors grabbed him by his legs after his head was already outside the tunnel. He was beaten and put in a cell the width of a mattress and shorter than his height so that he couldn’t straighten his body, neither standing nor lying down. He was handcuffed to the bars of the cage 24/7.